The City of Roses leads a list that also includes, in order, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, San Diego, Denver, Miami and Las Vegas.

The ranking considered the 50 largest cities in the United States, and is basically a blend of previous rankings the real estate blog put together this year.

“It was an epic process,” writes content editor Randy Nelson, “but when all of these seemingly incongruous rankings were fused together like in some mad scientist’s experiment, emerging from the smoke and sparks to claim its title of the best city in America for 2013 was Portland, OR.”